"Brothers" is a fine episode.. especially when Soong answers Data's question about why he was created
So I showed Inner Light to a non-Trekker..
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it seems that the words "Star Trek" are the part of the series that non trek fans hate. one time i was watching "violations" when one of my very girly friends stopped by to do some homework with me. when the episode was over, she told me that it was different than she had expected because it was not just about "Sci-fi stuff"
it is easy to get someone hooked as long as you let them watch the show without letting their prejudgment affect their opinion.
it is easy to get someone hooked as long as you let them watch the show without letting their prejudgment affect their opinion.
And it continues..I introduced a wildcard...DS9. Which requires more of an attention span to watch because of the serialized storylines 4th season onward. She's watched 4 episodes so far. Last night before I went to bed she asked to watch more ST but I was too tired.
While most Trek fans merely tolerate Enterprise, I think it has a lot to offer non-Trekkies who you're trying to convert if you can restrain your gag reflex. Swallow some Dramamine and drag out your favorite Enterprise, see if she takes to it. Maybe make it Trip/T'Pol heavy. That seemed to go pretty well.
And it continues..I introduced a wildcard...DS9. Which requires more of an attention span to watch because of the serialized storylines 4th season onward. She's watched 4 episodes so far. Last night before I went to bed she asked to watch more ST but I was too tired.
Sounds like a Trek nympho.
Disagree on that one. TOS and ENT, sure. DS9? Not so much
Rama said:
BOBW and Family was one big, deep arc, and I'm so glad that something as subtle and nuanced as Family came along.
As for Darmok, back in college, my poetry teacher showed us that episode, to show us the power of metaphors (and, really, the execution of the episode as a whole).
That, plus the scene in whcih the Romulan ships decloak and the the Klingon ships decloak is classic Picard.
BTW, The Neutral Zone is also a great episode, especially the scene in the bridge where the 20th Century figures out what's going on before Picard.
Other episodes I recommend:
"The Outcast" for its message, along with the fact that the Melinda Culea character was supposed to be male.
"Who Watches the Watchers?"
The one in which Data has to convince a group of colonists to leave their colony and Picard is fighting to convince an alien race (I forgot the name) to give them more time to remove the colonists.¨
The one that introduces the Cardasians: OBrien's line "I don't hate you for what you did Cardassian, but for what you made me do" or words to that effect.
"The Measure of a Man": Picard at his finest arguing for Data's rights.
Those are a few that come into my mind right now and solely focusing on TNG.
An update: She is now a rabid ST fan! She has watched episodes from EVERY show. Somehow, ST:Voyager wound up being her favorite.....she seems to like the Captain, 7of9 and the EMh the best. I even noticed her planning to write some ST fanfic! Damn I am good!
PS She watched STNG's "Masks" the other day, she loved it!!
RAMA
PS She watched STNG's "Masks" the other day, she loved it!!
RAMA
Whyy?
Whyy?
The episode is really unpopular around here. Good for her if she liked it though.
I find that hilarious for some reason.
Whyy?
The episode is really unpopular around here. Good for her if she liked it though.
Yes I find that bizarre. I always thought it was well received and personally think its an amazing episode. She actually looked over at me and said, "thank you for showing me that episode".
RAMA
That would be "The Wounded."
That episode was VERY powerful--I agree: so much that even though I only heard "The Minstrel Boy" once, for the first time ever, without the chords, I recognized the song IMMEDIATELY upon hearing it years later and it brought back the impact of that episode.
I thought the episode suggested a lot of depth to the Cardassians, a promise finally fulfilled at the end of DS9--and all of that from a first impression!
About Masks--It's not just her.
I liked it as well--I was a huge mythology buff at the time and I liked the primal imagery of the episode. It's not that the plot was that hugely spectacular, but the power of the archetypes it evoked that did it.
I know that's a pathetic way of explaining it, but yeah...
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Rama: I'm with you on Masks. I really enjoy that ep, so you and I are in the minority on this board here about it. Of course, it was an excuse for Brent Spiner to drag out all these different voices and inflections -- an acting "tour de force," if you will. But as a mythology buff myself, I loved the exploration of archetypes of sun and moon. Interesting stuff! -- RR
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